José Gurvich, one of Uruguay’s most influential artists, was from his teenage years a member of the Torres García Studio, the group that played the leading role in introducing abstract art and modernism to Uruguay. Born in Lithuania, he was six years old when his family immigrated. Gurvich’s paintings reflect Jewish folklore, the culture of Latin America, and the life and landscape of Israel, where he lived for a number of years. His work was the subject of a solo exhibition at Comisión Nacional de Bellas Artes (Uruguay, 1967) and was featured in many group shows in the Americas, Europe, and Israel. He moved to New York City in 1970.
Jonathan:I know you do. It cracks me up that you do; it amuses me. You know, up till like eight or nine years ago, let’s not forget, I was painting apartments for a living. Apartments. Walls. Rooms. I…
Each corner of Mickie Caspi’s Seasons Ketubah represents one of the four seasons. The traditional text is framed by a mosaic of heart-shaped flowers and encircled by a quote from the Song of Songs.
An eruv (or eruv ḥatserot, merger of domains) is a symbolic expansion of an area outside a single home into a larger private domain. Within that eruv, certain activities prohibited in the public…